unthink
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.11 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "They at least had the immense and mighty imagination of which I speak; they could unthink the past. They could uncreate the Fall. With a reverence which moderns might think impudence, they could uncreate the Creation."
- "But to do so consistently would require a fairly radical revision of the concept. We should have to unthink as far back as Aristotle […]"
- "In An Experiment with an Air-Pump, characters repeatedly assert that "once you've thought something, you can't unthink it, can you?""
- ""You must learn to edit your thoughts," she said. "Unthink them...""
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- Proto-Indo-European *teng-der. Proto-Germanic *þankijaną Proto-West Germanic *þankijan Old English þenċan Middle English thinken English think English unthink From un- + think.